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D. AVERY.

GASKET TRIMMING 0R ORNAMENT.

Patent ed May 9,1882.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEXTER AVERY, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE TEXTILEMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CASKET TRIMMING OR ORNAMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Application filed-August17, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEXTER AVERY, of Westfield, in the county of Hampdenand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful ImprovedGasket Trimming or Ornament, of which the following is a specificationand description.

My invention relates to that class of caskettrimmings which are made ofsome rigid or firm material-as woodor metal-and ofspherical or curvedform, and which are covered by hein g platted with thread or sometextile material; and its object is'to keep the thread or, textilematerial together and in place as it is being applied to the rigidmaterial, or to prevent the thread or textile material from slipping outof place either when it is applied or afterward, and I accomplish thisby the means substantially as hereinafter described, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure I is a side view of ascrew-knob for a casket, made according to my invention. Fig-II is aplan view of the same. Fig. III is a side view of the mold, having itssurface roughened or prepared with grooves previous tob eiug coveredwith thetextile material, and Fig. IV is a plan view of the same.

In the manufacture of casket-trimmings of this class-those covered witha textile material and of a curved or spherical form-it has heretoforebeen the practice to turn or form the articles from some rigidmaterial-as wood or metal-with a smooth surface, and afterward coverthem with a textile material, usually by plattiug them with thread in aplatting-machine; and in this process the thread slips from the smoothconvex portions of the surface, and gathers into the concave portions bythe action of the machine in platting, so that when the article isfinished there is an excess of thread in the concave portions, while theconvex portions are so imperfectly covered as to expose, in places, thesurface of the wood or metal. My invention obviates all this difficulty,so that when finished an equal distribution of thread or textilematerial ovcrlthje whole surface of the article covered is the result.

In the drawings, 2 in Fig. III representsa wooden screw-knob mold, whichisprovided on its convex surface with a series of grooves,

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(Nomodehl 5, which grooves may be in the form of corrugations eitherangular or curved in their crosssection, or of any desirable form,which, in'

such as sizingand then dipped into or coated over ,with sand,so thatwhen dry the article shall have a rough surface. When the article isafterward platted with thread this rough surface, whether made bycorrugations or grooves or saud,will prevent the thread from slippingfroma convex portion to a concave portion of the surface, and afterbeing platted or covered, the textile covering will be evenlydistributed over the whole surface of the article, and will present amuch bctterappearance than when covered upon a smooth surface, as-

in theordinary manner.

If used for a screw-knob, the screw 4 may be'secured in the knob 2 andused with or without a metal plate, 3, beneath the knob. Of course anyother article to be used as a trimming for caskets may be treated in thesame way with a roughened surface before being covered with the threador textile material.

In this manufacture of casket-trimmings I denominate the article to becovered with the thread or textile fabric the mold, whether made of woodor metal, or of any other sufficiently rigid or hard material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is An improvedcasket trimming or ornament, consisting of a rigid mold, having itssurface corrugated or roughened and platted'or covered with thread ortextilefabric, substantially as setforth.

DEXTER AVERY.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. ELY, J osEPH M. ELY.

